NM² Dedicated Research Facilities

The facilities listed below are used in a variety of configurations to interrogate by in-situ laser spectroscopic/scattering and mass-spectrometric means, reacting flow problems comprising:

• Nanoparticle formation/characterization
• NanoParticle based Energetic Materials
• NanoParticle based Sensors
• Microelectronics processing
• Chemical vapor deposition of nanocrystalline thin films
• Properties of Soot and their chemistry

Instrumentation

• Pulsed YAG Lasers
• UV-Intensified CCD Camera
• 0.5 M Flat Field Imaging Spectrometer
• Time-of-Flight Single-Particle Mass-Spectrometer
• Custom Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy System ( LIBS)
• Quadrupole Mass-Spectrometer
• Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer Systems
• Aerosol Particle Mass Analyzer
• Electrospray generators
• Assorted Atmospheric Pressure Laminar Flame Reactors
• Instrumented Combustion Bomb
• Nanoparticle Synthesis/Measurement Systems
• Custom T-Jump Time-of Flight Mass Spectrometer